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The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Thus does the Beeb ease the English into another gray familiar day, another half-century of magic mystic rays.
Francis X Clines

Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.
Gail Lumet Buckley

The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
Stanley Kubrick

I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.
John Mortimer

A piece of writing is like a piece of magic. You create something out of nothing.
Susanna Clarke

Music is the strongest form of magic.
Marilyn Manson

The power of Thought, the magic of the Mind!
Lord Byron

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
Jim Rohn

Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.
Simone De Beauvoir

'And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.'
Roald Dahl

There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment
Norman Vincent Peale

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Dale Carnegie

The site I landed on feels much more isolated than it really is; it's almost magical. Within its limited radius, there was a whole range of the local ecology.
Martin Puryear

The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
Blaine Lee

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds; it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
Earl Nightingale

I've often wondered about people that come to the profession [acting] late in life. I've wanted to be an actor since the first grade. I watched a play being performed by the third grade class, and it was... magic.
William Christopher

The real secret of magic lies in the performance.
David Copperfield

At the moment we've only got 16 first-team players and my initials stand for Mick McCarthy, not Merlin the Magician [the new Wolves manager gets the excuses in early!]
Mick McCarthy

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
Tom Peters

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
J B Priestley

There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.
Lou Reed

The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Eden Phillpotts

Briggsy's performances down the years have been pure magic. If they could bottle his ability and sell if at drama schools they'd make a fortune. [on news actor Johnny Briggs was to be axed]
Lynne Perrie

Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
W Clement Stone

Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C Clarke

Marlon [Brando] is such a pure piece of animal flesh. He's pan-sexual, beyond normalcy of any kind. Once in a whlie, he'll give you a few minutes of his special genius - magic time.
Roy Scheider

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
Thomas Szasz

Manchester United are looking to Frank Stapleton to pull some magic out of the fire.
Jimmy Hill

Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, 'Lighthouses' as the poet said 'erected in the sea of time.' They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
Martha Graham

Harry Potter has been a fantastic experience and the fact it has made stars of us all is unbelievable at times - it really is magic of a sort.
Rupert Grint

Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamed would have come his way. Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A world in which elves exist and magic works offers greater opportunities to digress and explore.
Terry Brooks

If we are to have magical bodies, we must have magical minds.
Dr Wayne Dyer

When you start writing the magic comes when the characters seem to take on a life of their own and write the words for themselves.
Alice Hoffman

Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes just be an illusion
Javan

In a world full of audio visual marvels, may words matter to you and be full of magic.
Godfrey Smith

Giving 'Magic' the basketball is like giving Hitler an army, Jesse James a gang, or Genghis Knan a horse. Devastation. Havoc.
Jim Murray

There is a lot of comedy in magic, and magic going wrong, and also it is a dramatic subject.
J K Rowling

Sometimes happiness is a blessing, but generally it is a conquest. Each day's magic moment helps
Paulo Coelho

The magic of a face.
Thomas Carew

I know it's going to be just magical [and almost certainly going to be over quickly - on playing Sharapova]
Casey Dellacqua

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably will themselves not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.
Daniel Burnham

Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its glory.
Dennis Gabor

Even though I make those movies, I find myself wishing that more of those magic moments could happen in real life.
Jane Seymour

A Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed to create one small white pigeon or three normal-sized billiard balls.
Terry Pratchett

Hehe! That's magic!
Paul Daniels

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
Norman Vincent Peale

Sinatra created a kind of magic. You want those people to be part of your life.
Gloria Vanderbilt



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